skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Seven and a half years.

Seven and a half years was the 2017 Ryzen release date. Zen 1 took them from being completely hopeless to having something competitive but only just, because they were still having the whole thing fabbed by GF. Their revenue didn't exceed what it was in 2011 until 2019 and didn't exceed Intel's until 2022. It's still less than Nvidia, even though AMD is fielding CPUs competitive with Intel and GPUs competitive with Nvidia at the same time.

They had a pretty good revenue jump in 2021 but much of that was used to pay down debt, because debt taken on when you're almost bankrupt tends to have unfavorable terms. So it wasn't until somewhere in 2022 that they finally got free of GF and the old debt and could start doing something about this. But then it takes some amount of time to actually do it, and you would expect to be seeing the results of that approximately right now. Which seems like a silly time to stop looking.

Also, somewhat counterintuitively, George Hotz et al seem to be employing a strategy in the nature of "say bad things about them in public to shame them into improving", which has the dual result of actually working (they fix a lot of the things he's complaining about) but also making people think that things are worse than they are because there is now a large public archive of rants about things they've already fixed. It's not clear if this is the company not providing a good mechanism for people to complain about things like that in private and have them fixed promptly so it doesn't have take media attention to make it happen, or it's George Hotz seeking publicity as is his custom, or some combination of both.
There are several designed that way for the Steam Deck. They are just generic USB C hubs with a slot of the deck. Not Thunderbolt though.
It still doesn't really change the equation though. For people that want to have children, it's a nice bonus. But for people that don't want to have kids, it isn't changing anyone's mind, so if the purpose is actually to raise the birth rate, it's a failure on its face.
This looks great! I have used the biorXiv version of papermatch and it gives pretty good results!
Low-income Americans are struggling. It could get worse
Locking some apps without knowing the password also helped me. I used to ask one of my friends who used to stay sufficiently away to lock with some password so that I would hesitate to go that far and feel guilty enough to even think that.
Thanks for the attachments.
Not advice, but...

> doing 100+ interviews

Companies seem to be definitely interested in you, if you get to the interview stage. They do see your gap of 5 years, your age (I assume both are present in your CV), but in the past 2 years, you got on average an interview every week. This is actually quite enviable. If companies wouldn't be interested in you, they wouldn't spend the time interviewing you.

There will be some other recurring pattern that makes them change their mind...
This is nice in theory but the amount of vendor-specific libraries can be quite large (e.g. Nvidia's CUDA, libcudnn etc.), which you then have to get working on your new OS.
That's has a major downgrade. For binary embeddings, the top 10 results are same as fp32, albeit shuffled. However after the 10th result, I think quality degrades quite a bit. I was planning to add a reranking strategy for binary embeddings. What do you think?
There is no general purpose GPU development on Apple M series.

There is Metal development. You want to learn Apple M-series gpu and gpgpu development? Learn Metal!

https://developer.apple.com/metal/
We can't even end the common cold...

Bait for rich idiots
I bet you've read atomic habits.
I gave up on shoelaces many years ago and now wear loafers almost exclusively. It has saved a lot of time!
Schottky diodes are still useful today. Shockley diodes are not.
Thank you for reminding me to give NetSurf another try. No package in Ubuntu for some reason, but relatively easy to compile from source.
Nice! Does-this/can-this handle interlacing?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interlaced_video

(Half vertical resolution, offset a bit every other frame)
Google is an advertising agency. It's a miracle blockers lasted this long.
Do nations fail primarily for economic reasons?

When the level of exploitation by those on top becomes too extreme, that's what does it?

Does that adequately explain other factors like disease, religion, natural disaster, incompetence, corruption, conquest and civil war?
This curious crystal converts the real world into 8-bit
After HD, adding pixels/framerate/depth/brightness is like a clean house: it's hard to articulate the value proposition up front in a way that does it justice and it's easy to talk yourself out of going to the trouble, but once you have it you realize just how good it is.
Happy to hear it! Crazy to realize I've spent nearly half a decade now thinking every day about how to improve the UX for this. A few areas I really want to improve still, but it has come a long way.
These blog posts were written based on my company, Hot Aisle, donating the compute. =) Super proud of being able to support this.
If it is done in literal second, why will you benchmark it?

In such case you need "binary" benchmark: does user need to wait or not? You don't need some fancy graphics, percentiles, etc.

And in such case your worse enemy is not JIT but variance of user's hardware, from old Atom netbook to high-end working station with tens of 5Ghz cores. Same for RAM and screen size.
Typo, I meant PSP.
Agree that most companies prioritize profits over lives in an unconscionable manner, but there's a point of diminishing returns where eventually you can save a few more lives, but at an astronomical cost. Auto manufacturers have the same dilemma: spend a few hundred million dollars adding safety features, or nix the features and hope to lose less than that in lawsuits?

Eventually the question will be, how far do we really need to go, i.e. how much profit do we allow ourselves before it's morally untenable and we should plow it back into R&D? Unfortunately, as long as health care is for-profit, and absent effective regulation, companies will always err on the side of profit.
Hey, that's really cool. Why did you pick Latin over Greek? Or do you study Greek as well?
For 4, it would be neat to first pass each block of code (function or class or whatever) through an llm to extract meaning, and then embed some combination of llm parsed meaning, docstring and comments, and function name. Then do semantic search against that.

That way you’d cover what the human thinks the block is for vs what an LLM “thinks” it’s for. Should cover some amount of drift in names and comments that any codebase sees.
> People are not having kids because they don't want kids.

The US currently faces an inability to support a household on 1-2 typical incomes. This pressure pushes away from parenthood.

I believe a stronger reason(s) is that the demands on parents have massively increased while kids simultaneously lost most of their nutrients for social and internal growth.

Between my parents generation (silent) and mine (genx), parenting time sharply rose. My mom's peers parented a few hours a week; I parented ~ceaselessly. Modern kids face 24/7 adulting.

At the same time, kids access to 1) safe [from cars,adults] free range area and 2) adult-free social time went from sq miles to sq ft and from hrs/day to n/a.

I argue that stripping critical resources from kids and parents gives us fewer kids and parents.
Are you conflating fascism with conservatism? Stalin was a socialist, a fascist and a conservative in the sense in which the 'c' word indicates 'maintenance of the status quo'. Certainly conservatives like to conserve & we hope that means saving that which is generally considered worth conserving though opinions differ when it comes to the details. Hitler was a national socialist and most definitely a fascist. Unregulated powerful elements in any society will always tend towards a degree of compulsion to maintain their status and we're not short of examples in the West.
'and the more their personal experience of the world must be maintained, protected.' is merely an assertion which you choose to believe. I'm sure examples can be found but also plenty of counter examples. You can't generalize.
Hot Aisle (my company) has MI300x compute available for rent too! =)
I'm sure there's a lot of work, but hundreds of millions per deployment is not justifiable. The Finnish EPIC deployment has cost almost a billion euros.

Estonia's from-scratch system was reportedly about 10 million euros.
If you are open to run Linux you can use standard opencl and vulkan.
I'm also finishing a book per week, but after reading I'm scrolling usually(not much but I would be lying if I say I don't).

Can you suggest some good fiction? I recently finished the Good Girls Guide to Murder set and am looking for some page-turner.

TIA
Yep I meant check-in.
Merry Xmas everyone.

PS1 has got to be my most memorable gift. That loading screen is burned into the OLED of my subconscious.

I like how jakebasile put it though:

> Some of the finest memories are just a jumble of similar situations though.

Archetypical Xmas AM is me, my brother, and my mom. It was always a huge exercise of my willpower to wait for my brother (5 years older, lifelong night owl) to wake up. My single mom would always lavish us in gifts. We were relatively poor in our area; Xmas was the day she made us feel as wealthy as kings. I later learned that she sometimes racked up huge credit card debt to give us this experience. I haven't done an Xmas tree for myself in years but when our baby comes I will for sure revive that magical experience for her. In the late AM we would drive over to my aunt/uncle/cousins and enjoy bagels, talk about the gifts we got, and watch movies. Everyone stayed in cozy pajamas all day, I think that's a small but important part of why this day often felt different.

In later years Xmas Eve is now my fondest jumble of memories. Growing up, we did not have people at the house. I resented my mom's antisociality a bit. But then one year, the family member who usually hosted Xmas Eve said they were tired of it. Quite the surprise to everyone when my mom said she would host the next party! She's now been hosting it for 10+ years and it's always a good time every year. I'm very proud of her for coming out of her shell and being the sturdy/reliable anchor that brings the family together every year.
I fly iNav on a couple planes. I havent updated to the latest version in a couple years but i find it works great. The electronics like gps modules and sensors are insanely cheap now if you go straight from china (aliexpress) - you can get an hglrc m100 gps for about $12 shipped now.
I second this. My TODO lists just keep growing, since the cost of adding an item to the list is infinitely lower than removing it. One ADHD trick that works for me (YMMV) is to write it by hand, on paper. Then I’d think twice before adding something, and oh boy, is it satisfying to physically cross items out!
I completely agree, but that's something that will change over time, especially as more people have EVs. Consider what it was like when the first ICEs came out: there weren't gas stations every mile like there is today; they popped up more often as more people had more vehicles and drove them further. The same will happen with EV charging stations.

I'll be the first to admit that the infrastructure is lacking. I live in the Canadian prairies. There are only a few cities and there are towns every 10-20 minutes apart. Every town has a gas station (if they are open when you are driving through), but the same can't be said for charging stations. Thankfully there are enough stations for me to drive anywhere from Edmonton to Winnipeg without getting stranded, but only just. In two years of ownership over yet to run into a situation where the only chargers are all down, and I've only once seen a single machine that is down. Many of the stations are about 100km apart and my vehicle's range is practically 250km (from 90% to 20%), down to 200km in winter. It also doesn't help that within Saskatchewan almost all of those charges are the original 50kW, meaning it takes about an hour to charge every two hours of driving. It's definitely at the early adopter stage. But my car is capable of charging at 227kW. Stopping at a more modern 200kW charger it only takes 15 minutes - that's just enough time to use the washroom and grab a snack. Even with the 50kW charges all I end up doing is sitting down for a quick burger or sandwich. I don't mind the every two hours part at all; even with my ICE I would stop everyone two hours for washroom and a stretch and a snack, and that takes 15 minutes anyway.

Having home charging definitely makes a huge difference. I never fast charge unless traveling to see family. Within the city I plug it in at home every few days just to top it up. The efficiency really shows itself in the city. In my area the winters are cold enough that everybody plus in their cars to keep their engine block warm. Availability is universal at homes, including apartment buildings. Using even 120V charging is practical at these places and that's plenty to keep a vehicle topped up for daily city driving. Still, I won't deny that at-home level 2 driving really makes it a painless experience.

As far as practically today, I agree, it's not easy for everyone just yet. As far as the general sentiment that EVs are worse vehicles, I encourage people to try driving one. The people who think they are slow and weak couldn't be any more wrong. My lowly SUV has the power and torque of a large truck, but without the noise and smoke. I absolutely love driving it and I never want to go back.

I expect that as more people have them, infrastructure will follow and that will make them even more accessible to more people. That's just how new technologies work. EVs are just at the point of crossing the chasm as they say. It won't be long until they are commonplace. Vehicle manufacturers are already going all in.
I'm don't feel like I really get the distinction between a mapping and a function, or a visualization and a graph.

But he was careful to point out that it wasn't a graph.

To me the key point is that the input is all three variables, the two points and their midpoint, and not just the midpoint.
Yes, this is an area of active research. For example https://lilianweng.github.io/posts/2023-10-25-adv-attack-llm...
Project Land-Cover Map Austria: Update 2025
Hi HN,

showcasing my project over the last years (again). The updated LC-Product works now pretty streamlined and it makes pretty interesting (and surprisingly good to compress) maps.

Stack is a collection of adjustable U-Nets that make predictions that are merged together to derive the final map.

Happy to answer questions.

Happy holidays and happy hacking.
Sherlock: Hunt down social media accounts by username across 400 social networks
Besides the official docs you can check out llama.cpp as an example that uses metal for accelerated inference on Apple silicon.
How do you manage heat? I'm looking at a hashcat build with a few 5090, and water cooling seems to be the sensible solution if we scale beyond two cards.
I have an AOC Q27G3XMN and while I do get reduced motion blur from this, I also experience very bad color banding/shifting. Messing with some of the values in the script config makes it slightly better, and changing the overdrive setting on the monitor seems to affect it as well, but there is still pretty strong banding no matter what strength it's on. I tested on my phone (Pixel 8) and it works very well there without any banding or color weirdness, so I guess it's just something about this particular monitor that doesn't work well with this method.
‘Star Trek: Discovery’ Officially Erased From Canon
Personally I think that even if you don't know everything, just make clear what you are certain and uncertain about.

You probably know a lot, and what you write is still good as long as you don't spread misinformation. I have issues trusting most sources that are not clear about what they are uncertain about, cause most people are not experts.
The more certs you have, the slower. Much slower, as you have to read the whole cert, and hash it.

With hashes the lookup is instant, as in git.
So Snow Crash[0] does affect both humans[1] and computers!

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snow_Crash

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McCollough_effect
Indeed. I had also built this dashboard(1) which overrides my browser tab so I am always aware of what I have to get done. I need to start using it again.

Thanks!

1. https://github.com/JUSTSUJAY/Tickr
Thinking of it, and asking ChatGPT: “AI-driven research on the Bible has vast potential for academic study, theological exploration, ..."
Ignorant question: Is the narrower bandwidth of light from LEDs a factor? (I don't really know much about light and optics and the human vision system, but I know in the audio world that pure sine waves can cause hearing damage at lower amplitudes than wider-bandwidth sound, and they can certainly sound more "piercing".)

This article refers to the LED light as "too bright, too blue, and too concentrated"--"too bright" and "too blue" are pretty clear, but "too concentrated" doesn't seem immediately clear to me--too concentrated spatially, I think it implied?, or too concentrated in discrete wavelengths?
You could knock at least a third off that total cost as well if you buy this stuff around holidays when its on sale at aliexpress.
For this reason, I have been pretty convinced that the only way this is solved is via culture and I am skeptical it's worth the cultural change.

For starters, Money and Macro looked into this and a lot of the fertility decline is the result of less unplanned pregnancy. Teenager's are far less likely to give birth. This is seen as a good thing.

In many places of the world, woman not having children is seen as bad (see China's shengnu dialog), but that's also immediately also recognized as misogynistic by liberal minded people. So I'm not sure it's worth solving either.

So it's basically a classic case of societal values bumping up against personal autonomy. In my mind, the best option is to prepare for population decline and mitigate against the downsides.
Christmas Punch Requires a Formerly Forbidden Fruit
It's only 0.000001 of the mass of Earth's atmosphere (assuming 5e18kg)
Go Composition can break Implicit Interfaces
Would have been a Hindu Jesus, if we had named him that. Missed that chance!
Another trick for classifying bytes is to use pshufb. That instruction works like:

fn pshufb(a: [i8; 16], b: [i8; 16]) -> [i8; 16] {
result = [0; 16]
for j in 0, 1, …, 15 {
if b[j] >= 0 {
result[j] = a[b[j] & 15];
}
}
return result;
}

So you can often construct values m1, m2, and compute:

a = pshufb(m1, input & 0xf)
b = pshufb(m2, (unsigned_input) >> 4)
x = f(a,b)

Where f is something like bit wise AND. Roughly, m1 and m2 assign sets of 8 potential properties based on the high or low order bits of each byte, and then we and together the sets of properties to make sure the upper and lower bits ‘agree’.

This technique can sometimes be used to mark a few special characters.
I agree on outsourcing bookkeeping and accounting.

Because bookkeeping and accounting are separate operations, I would specify Quickbooks.

Bookkeeping often moves in house before accounting.

A business owner needs access to the books independent of their accountants and bookkeepers because they need the ability to run reports and make forecasts themselves.

Keeping track of money should not be outsourced because when you run out of money is your business dies. The accountant’s business does not. You can not outsource caring.
Smoking on flights sucked. The whole cabin ended up hazy and choked with smoke. It stank. I hated those little ashtrays full of nasty ash and gum in the armrests. There are more than just the obvious safety reasons to ban it.
People have already mentioned Metal, but if you want cross platform, https://github.com/gfx-rs/wgpu has a vulkan-like API and cross compiles to all the various GPU frameworks. I believe it uses https://github.com/KhronosGroup/MoltenVK to run on Macs. You can also see the metal shader transpilation results for debugging.
> We already have precident on that topic via that short story about the reverse isekai airplane carrier to ancient Rome that was written on Reddit in early 2010s

Can you please talk about this some more? A cursory search did not give me anything. What short story are you talking about and which adaptation of it?
On semi-related news...

Santa Cruz Wharf’s fallen restroom becomes an unlikely tourist attraction: https://archive.ph/k1lwt
Northeast of Columbus, OH is Silent Night, Holy Lights and worth at least a 30 minute drive.

1215 Venetian Way, Columbus, OH 43230
Oh good point it does work with the browser extension. I was experiencing this when trying to add them from my phone.
Buying prebuilt stuff and premade sequences seems like it’d take all the fun out of it, at least for me. I guess this is an area where some people are in it for the goal and others for the journey. I think either is equally valid, but it’s always interesting to see people making different tradeoffs than I’d make.
100% of the people I live with will argue with me 20% of the time and be wrong 80% of those times.
Brave has committed to do what they can as long as they can. But unsure how long and what that really turns out to be.
https://brave.com/blog/brave-shields-manifest-v3/
The game engine industry is pure C++. Most games are written in C# just because of Unity
Are You the Cause of Your Team's Change Fatigue?
What exactly is the confusion? Does “parameter efficient fine-tuning” mean anything in context of the other Lora? If not, then it’s probably obvious which one this is about.
A good ADHD coach can be life-changing, as cheesy and corny as it sounds. As you’re likely aware (but for the benefit of everyone else), the ADHD brain is not extrinsically and intrinsically motivated by the exact same things of someone with a more neurotypical brain.

An ADHD brain is more motivated by external Urgency while a more neurotypical will be motivated externally by Importance. This often leads to ADHD people being perceived as anywhere from flakey, unreliable, to totally unconcerned with problems and/or commitments. In social relationships, they are perceived as being anywhere from touch and go to just unwilling to invest into social bonds. The worst part is that if you are able to mask well in one area, you just don’t have the energy to mask everywhere else. It’s like an unwinnable game of wack-a-mole.

It has taken many years and losing so much to get to where I am and it’s still objectively shit. Knowing that every in the world is not made for how your brain functions and is often made specifically for how the majority of people’s brain functions is depressing.

I’ve found that very carefully selecting work that lets me lean into my specific strengths (good under pressure, able to dive deep on technical problems and pull out results, and being a good business
communicator), in conjunction with aggressively automating or pre-preparing parts of my life that suck (laying out clothes/tools/equipment the night before, having a checking “escrow” account all my auto bill pay gets pulled out of) helps me function more efficiently.

It gets better, you can carve newer and deeper neural-pathways by sticking to routines, and finding ways to get that dopamine.

Also medication, that really helps.
Imo it's only better if you expect stuff to be saved correctly for reading offline. Pocket often fails even with major news sites and just opens the link to the browser. That's a big pain for me.

Also, I don't love the ads and recommended content in Pocket.
Maybe it is, but the person asking it will never know that unless someone takes the time to respond saying so.